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Can’t believe these lyrics I heard on Radio 1

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MangetoutsaysGetOutMan · 16/05/2024 11:08

I was listening to Radio 1 with children in the car and I had to turn it off.

Attracted to your status, maybe your a* (sounds like a planet)

Who is this H? I’m surprised the BBC let it through.

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jcyclops · 16/05/2024 21:47

I went to a disco.
They played the Macarena, I did the Macarena.
They played the Twist, I did the twist.
They played Come On Eileen, and I got kicked out!

jcyclops · 16/05/2024 21:45

Purple haze, all in my brain
Lately things, they don't seem the same
Acting funny, but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

So many people misheard this lyric that Jimi Hendrix actually started singing the alternative in live performances:
Acting funny, but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy

SpidersAreShitheads · 16/05/2024 21:38

There's a comedian that has a whole FB page dedicated to misheard song lyrics. Some of them are really funny.

This one was all about Carmina Burana (the Old Spice ad music) and made me laugh.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/934665984965294

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/reel/934665984965294

CurlyhairedAssassin · 16/05/2024 21:27

Laiste · 16/05/2024 12:00

A few years ago now i was a bit puzzled about what runtering was. Brian sounded very determined it should happen ...

Brian Adams.
I'm Gonna Runter You

😳

😂

Livelovebehappy · 16/05/2024 21:19

I thought op meant ‘arse’ (sounds like Mars)

SpidersAreShitheads · 16/05/2024 21:18

turbonerd · 16/05/2024 19:08

Oh no, I have avoided listening to the lyrics in Come On Eileen because I didn’t want to know.
Crap.

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Come On Eileen isn't rape-based, but it just comes across as a bit coercive really. The lyrics are a bloke going on a bit without accepting that she said no. But the video doesn't really give that vibe tbh - IIRC it plays out as a couple that have broken up and he's trying to get her back, and gradually she seems more interested before they get back together at the end.

I mean, it wouldn't be made today but I don't think it's terrible. Certainly not worth avoiding the song for.

Apparently it's actually supposed to be representative of Catholicism and lust but that's definitely not obvious.

I also think that it's really easy to apply modern standards to old songs, films etc and find that they don't really fit with what we expect today. I think that unless something is genuinely awful, it's OK to accept that it was representative of its time, and to continue enjoying it.

soupfiend · 16/05/2024 21:17

I meant the fact that OP cant really say the things she is talking about. Not whether something sounds like/is like/isnt like/rhymes with

She doesnt even write the word sex.

You've gone off on a complete tangent

Sugarbeaches · 16/05/2024 21:17

I thought the clue was a + a planet = a + mars = arse.

I got to the same word (ish) in a different way! 😛

FuckTheClubUp · 16/05/2024 21:08

soupfiend · 16/05/2024 20:39

You said it sounds like a planet. I thought you meant it rhymes.

You dont talk like this in real life do you OP?

Do you do that Les Dawson Cissy and Aida thing where you mouth everything?

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You said it sounds like a planet. I thought you meant it rhymes.

You dont talk like this in real life do you OP?

I’m not sure how you’re flipping it on OP when your first two sentences literally say that you misinterpreted what was written in front of you. OP said A (sounds like a planet) and most of us understood what they said with no issues. Yes the lyric was wrong but you’re also wrong here.

This is like saying, ‘you said it looks like a dog. I thought you meant a cat.’ You can’t just change what’s been written in front of you😂 since when was saying something sounds like something, means that it rhymes. Those are two completely different things…

Malo05 · 16/05/2024 20:43

OneRedSandal · 16/05/2024 17:42

Which one did she pick?

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That one sentence had me choking, tears the lot! Too funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣

soupfiend · 16/05/2024 20:39

MangetoutsaysGetOutMan · 16/05/2024 20:25

I didn’t say it rhymed with “planet” I said it was like a planet.

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You said it sounds like a planet. I thought you meant it rhymes.

You dont talk like this in real life do you OP?

Do you do that Les Dawson Cissy and Aida thing where you mouth everything?

soupfiend · 16/05/2024 20:37

WitchWithoutChips · 16/05/2024 19:57

She means the planet Uranus, but in being so coy she has caused far more confusion!

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God almighty, the OP is like a mensa test. Well I failed. I have never managed to do those cryptic crosswords either. This is why, I fail to associate unmentionable planets with bum holes.

Scurryfunge12 · 16/05/2024 20:34

LoreleiG · 16/05/2024 20:15

Oh dear, I must be getting old. I read the first two pages of this thread thinking:

  1. H from Steps is singing about anuses? (Ani?)
  2. Anus doesn’t rhyme with planet.

Uranus

PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 16/05/2024 20:30

AuntieAntik · 16/05/2024 20:22

I had a bloke who thought that the lyrics were 'Play the fuckin' music white boy'. He was outraged!!!

Oh another one I misheard was Rockin around the Christmas Tree’s “Later we'll have some pumpkin pie” as “later we’ll have some fucking pie” as I’d never heard of pumpkin pie before 🫣

choccytime · 16/05/2024 20:29

This is hilarious 😂

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MangetoutsaysGetOutMan · 16/05/2024 20:25

soupfiend · 16/05/2024 19:36

Ive got to page 2 and Im none the wiser

OP, am I to understand that you thought some song lyrics used the word anus?

But when you wrote your OP you wrote it as a* and said it rhymed with planet?

In what world does anus rhyme with planet?

Or have I misunderstood completely?

I didn’t say it rhymed with “planet” I said it was like a planet.

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Mirabai · 16/05/2024 20:25

Peachy2005 · 16/05/2024 19:51

Umm is it not that? 😊

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Yes.

AuntieAntik · 16/05/2024 20:22

I had a bloke who thought that the lyrics were 'Play the fuckin' music white boy'. He was outraged!!!

Goodawn · 16/05/2024 20:21

Uranus

Justrestingmyeyes1 · 16/05/2024 20:19

GirlOfThe70s · 16/05/2024 14:37

About a hundred years ago I was singing a cheery pop ditty from a band called Herman's Hermits. My mother overheard and said 'what are you singing?'
I confidently sang the chorus to her again - 'She's a muscular boy'.
Mother - 'I think you'll find it's "she's a must to avoid".

The tables were turned decades later when I caught her warbling away to Bohemian Rhapsody, 'spare him his life from his Walls sausages'. (Walls was a company that made sausages, maybe they still do.)

That is bloody hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

LoreleiG · 16/05/2024 20:17

samarrange · 16/05/2024 19:39

A friend of mine was convinced that the line "My feet is my only carriage" (from No Woman No Cry) was in fact "My fear is my only courage", which would make a fabulous book title, or perhaps social media bio strapline.

I thought this too until now 😂

ToWhitToWhoo · 16/05/2024 20:16

A friend heard 'Come on Eileen' for the first time in early 2021, and thought it was about the key preoccupation of that time: 'Covid 19'.

Another friend, as a child, thought that the song line 'You don't have to say you love me; just be close at hand' was 'You don't have to say I'm lovely, just because I am!' I still prefer her version.

As a teenager, I thought that the chorus of Mud's 'Tiger Feet'

'Alright, that's right, that's right, that's right
That's right, I really love your tiger light
And that's neat, that's neat, that's neat, that's neat
I really love your tiger feet, I really love your tiger feet'

was

'Alright, that's right, that's right, that's right
That's right, I know your dire life.
And not me, not me, not me, not me,
I know your diary, I know your diary'

which I interpreted as meaning that her diary was full of dates with other men.

FuzzyCaoraDhubh · 16/05/2024 20:15

I'm always mishearing lyrics @PrettyFlyforaMaiTai 😑😁

LoreleiG · 16/05/2024 20:15

Oh dear, I must be getting old. I read the first two pages of this thread thinking:

  1. H from Steps is singing about anuses? (Ani?)
  2. Anus doesn’t rhyme with planet.
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